Freelance writer & editor, full-time silly sausage. Books, bikes, better places, beastly puns. She/ her/ the cats’ mother. 😽😈🏳️⚧️✊
Aspirational af. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau aka New Auck City. Always starting something; feel free to pick up where I leave off.
Jolisa Gracewood
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“The number of women serving time in prison is expected to surge 63% over the next decade, due to stronger punishments for theft.”
The current austerity-for-thee-but-not-for-me government of New Zealand, preparing to usher us all into our Les Misérables era…
It doesn’t have to be this way! #nzpol
Amazing protest in Tāmaki Makaurau as part of a national day of action against the bigoted coalition government's legislation trying to define a woman and man. Real feminists know women can't be defined. #transrights
This is a highly quantifiable if non-intuitive fact; how do you pay for walking and cycling infrastructure?
With the savings in health care.
Nicola Willis doesn't want to send billions of dollars offshore to pay for carbon credits to meet our obligations. And also doesn't want to enact domestic policy that would meet our obligations. Grown-up choices are hard. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Which would you rather have for $65 m - a year of public transport cap of $20 a week, or 588 meters of motorway?
Simeon Brown described Labour’s capped bus fares as fanciful.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #Transport #CostOfLiving
Jolisa Gracewood
Alt: Our mate Russell Crowe as Jean Valjean, with an eye on who to chase and punish next, when the actual right thing to do is treat people as human beings and make sure everyone has access to what they need.
Sorry to keep banging on about this, but the deeper you look at the NZ govt’s rush to commit needlessly to LNG imports, the worse it gets. Whatever their aim it will make us poorer, weaker and sicker. Watching a webinar on energy in Asia (our source of fossil fuels):
However, Finance Minister Nicola Willis has said she doesn't want to see billions of dollars go offshore to pay for credits.
$5.8 bn in new funding for the *entirety* of the creaking health system.
And nearly a third of that ($1.77 bn) for *sixteen kilometres* for one single road 🤔
